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Cary, (Arthur) Joyce (Lunel)

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Cary, (Arthur) Joyce (Lunel) (1888–1957), novelist, born in Londonderry. He joined the Nigerian political service in 1913, and served with the Nigerian regiment in the Cameroons campaign, 1915–16. His early ‘African’ novels, Aissa Saved (1932), An American Visitor (1933), The African Witch (1936), and Mister Johnson (1939), show with shrewd sympathy the relations between Africans and their British administrators. His major work consists of two trilogies; Herself Surprised (1941), To Be a Pilgrim (1942), and The Horse's Mouth (1944), chiefly concerned with the life of the artist Gulley Jimson; and Prisoner of Grace (1952), Except the Lord (1953), and Not Honour More (1955), a study of politics. Two further novels are studies of childhood: Charley is my Darling (1940) and the semi-autobiographical A House of Children (1941). Cary also wrote political studies, such as Power in Men (1939) and The Case for African Freedom (1941); poetry, including Marching Soldier (1945) and The Drunken Sailor (1947); a study in aesthetics, Art and Reality (1958); short stories, such as Spring Song and Other Stories (1960); and an unfinished novel with a religious theme, The Captive and the Free (1959).

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Joyce Cary

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Joyce Cary (Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary), 1888–1957, English author. From 1910 to 1920 he served as an administrator and soldier in Nigeria. Several of his early works, including Mister Johnson (1939), reflect his African experiences. Cary is perhaps best known for his two trilogies. Both these works, full of humor and compassion, convey a sense of the gradual change in the social and political structure of modern England. The first trilogy consists of Herself Surprised (1941), To Be a Pilgrim (1942), and The Horse's Mouth (1944), the last book featuring the visionary, iconoclastic painter Gully Jimson; the second trilogy consists of Prisoner of Grace (1952), Except the Lord (1953), and Not Honour More (1955). Cary wrote many other novels, in addition to political studies and poems. A collection of his short stories, Spring Song, was published posthumously in 1960.

Bibliography: See biography by M. Foster (1968); studies by C. Cook (1981), H. Adams (1986), and B. Fisher, ed. (1988).

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Cary, (Arthur Joyce)

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Cary, (Arthur Joyce) ( Lunel) (1888–1957) British novelist, b. Northern Ireland. His experiences in colonial service in Nigeria (1914–20) are reflected in novels such as Mister Johnson (1939). His best-known novel is The Horse's Mouth (1944).

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